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The Economic Impact of Heritable Physical Traits : Hot Parents, Rich Kid?
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Zhang, Anwen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Since the mapping of the human genome in 2004, biologists have demonstrated genetic links to the expression of several income-enhancing physical traits. To illustrate how heredity produces intergenerational economic effects, this study uses one trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which...
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Selection into experiments : evidence from a population of students
Schulz, Jonathan F.; Sunde, Uwe; Thiemann, Petra; … - 2019
This study investigates the selection into lab experiments among university students based on data from two cohorts of … a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited … rate in lab experiments by 50 percent. In terms of selection, we find that more selfish individuals and individuals with …
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Pay-what-you-want to support independent information : a field experiment on motivation
Casarico, Alessandra; Tonin, Mirco - 2018
Pay-what-you-want schemes can be a useful tool to finance high quality and independent news media without restricting readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field experiment with the Italian information site lavoce.info to explore how to structure a campaign in a way...
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Pay-what-you-want to support independent information : a field experiment on motivation
Casarico, Alessandra; Tonin, Mirco - 2018
Pay-what-you-want schemes can be a useful tool to finance high quality and independent news media without restricting readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field experiment with the Italian information site lavoce.info to explore how to structure a campaign in a way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803282
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Partisan Interactions : Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States
Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; Cruces, Guillermo - 2015
Since campaign contributions reveal the actor’s party leanings, they take place in a domain of social observation and are likely to be subject to social effects. We conducted a field experiment to identify some of these social effects. We sent letters to 92,000 contributors from all U.S....
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Systemic discrimination among large U.S. employers
Kline, Patrick; Rose, Evan K.; Walters, Christopher R. - 2021
We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically dispersed jobs posted by 108 of the largest U.S. employers. Distinctively Black names reduce the probability of employer...
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Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers
Kline, Patrick; Rose, Evan K.; Walters, Christopher - 2021
We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically dispersed jobs posted by 108 of the largest U.S. employers. Distinctively Black names reduce the probability of employer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216004
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Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers
Kline, Patrick; Rose, Evan; Walters, Christopher - 2021
We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically dispersed jobs posted by 108 of the largest U.S. employers. Distinctively Black names reduce the probability of employer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217012
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Pride and Prejudice : Employment Discrimination Against Openly Gay Men in the United States
Tilcsik, András - 2021
This article presents the first large-scale audit study of discrimination against openly gay men in the United States. Pairs of fictitious résumés were sent in response to 1,769 job postings in seven states. One résumé in each pair was randomly assigned experience in a gay campus...
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Mediation's Impact on Formal Discrimination Complaint Filing : Before and After the Redress Program at the U.S. Postal Serevice
Amsler (formerly Bingham), Lisa Blomgren; Novac, … - 2013
This study attempts to contribute to the growing body of field research on organizational use of employment dispute resolution. It examines a natural experiment in mediation of discrimination complaints at the United States Postal Service (USPS) to ascertain whether there is evidence of the...
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